Unrequited love, the frustrations of modern life, Scallies shouting abuse at women from cars – The Tin Foil Hat Brigade talks about these, and more – all within a ten-minute blast of furious Game Boy noise and raw, emotional vocals. Or something like that, anyway.

All Music and Lyrics by The Tin Foil Hat Brigade.
Recorded and Mastered by Lloyd Gabriel.
Additional Vocals (on G.Y.R.O) by Simon Patrick Gabriel and Lloyd Gabriel.
Artwork and Photography by Simon Thelwell – http://www.sixeightthree.com/

Geordie Hero Syphus has been mulling around the chip-scene for quite some time, releasing great albums, playing shows including UK’s Chiptune Alliance Tour and New York’s Blip Festival, releasing all sorts of wonderful chip plugins and hardware too! His latest release is a series of cover songs created over the past fourteen years, from massive pop hits to neat little re imaginings of UK TV theme songs! If you’re a fan of warm Amiga or Milkytracker tunes, this will be sure to delight.

It’s here, it’s finally here! In 2008, a younger James CalmDownKidder went to a little-known festival called Blip Festival, and this laid the seeds for CDKr’s most ambitious project yet – a chipmusic tribute to Fat Wreck Chord’s Short Music For Short People. 101 tracks, 101 different artists, all approximately 30 seconds or less. All-new original songs from some of Chipmusic’s biggest names, including Bit Shifter, gwEm, 4mat, Nordloef, and many (97, to be precise) more! On the Anniversary of CalmDownKidder’s first ChipFest event, Micro Music for Micro People is as much a Time Capsule of 2008-2009 chipmusic as it is an exciting and new release!

Thanks to Thomas ‘0010100’ Mahon for Mastering
Thanks to Ville Kontinnen for Artwork
Thanks to all the artists who have contributed, and thanks to all the artists who have contributed to CalmDownKidder Records over the years – and most importantly, thank you, the listener, for keeping CalmDownKidder Records alive throughout the years!

Whitely is a man that can genuinely claim to be Telford’s #1 Seapunk artiste – but when he’s not scuba diving with his musical equipment, he often creates top Game Boy jams for your earholes – and CDKr is happy to host ‘Mori’, an album containing five absolute bangers – the album is short, but it certainly packs some punch!

End of the world? Quite possibly, as the brutal fury of Cerebral Scars’ headspace is revealed to the world once again, with four intense tracks that will blow minds and speaker systems simultaneously. Inspired by London and Newcastle (CS’s hometown), Northern Dancing Town is sure to ignite dancefloors all over the nation.

When not travelling around the world, breaking hearts and bank balances, L-tron is busy making tasty dance beats on his Game Boy. Dsknekt is the result of many years of creating music, which ranges from “full on party classic”, to “even more full on party classic”. Don’t sit back, don’t relax, put this on and enjoy yourself silly.

CDKr is no stranger to hip hop, with the Chip Hop and Urban Bits compilations being notable examples – but here is the debut effort from rap icon Steady C! Straight outta Meriden, Conneticut, Steady C has been creating rhymes and breaking hearts since he was but a small child. This collection of tracks contains some oldies, and some new crackers for yer earholes as well.
Recommended Usage: stick it on a cassette tape, pop it in your car and cruise your local neighbourhood.

BSK! BSK! BSK! Whilst he and pal Maru are over in the UK, Bokusatsu Shoujo Koubou has unleashed his Uma Kill Fancy Resistance towards CDKr, and I can only but accept! Six tracks of astonishing Game Boy prowess are yours to behold if you download this album, but be warned – exposure to music this good can only be amazing for your health! If you like your music like your like your coffee, dark yet occasionally sugary at the same time, this might just be your new favourite album.

Jellica follows up his ‘Flappiest Bits‘ with some of his less flappy bits, I suppose? A collection of various tracks that are scattered all over the internet in miscellaneous compilations like an easter egg hunt that takes up space on your hard drive – now all in one convenient place! Don’t worry though, this isn’t some rubbish “yeah I’ve heard this before” selection, there are some brand spanking new tracks, including some top remixes by Jellica (remixing Video Game Orchestra, Victoria and Jacob, and previous CDKr Releasees VideoValvontaa – Jellica only listens to artists who begin with V, apparently) and from others of Jellica (Flashbob, Analog, Steve and esc)!

TLDR? If you like Jellica, you’ll love this!

Lubbly Jubbly artwork from KeFF, the man who can – click it for a HQ version!